Gurning at Patrons

Gurning at Patrons (2025)

N/A 3 min Movie
Documentary

During the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual open studios, three world-champion gurners process through the institution’s cast corridor, contorting their faces directly at passing patrons. Gurning—a British folk tradition formalised as a competition at the medieval Egremont Crab Fair—here enters one of Britain’s most revered cultural spaces.

Watch

Loading sources…

If a source does not load, open the ⚙ menu and pick another one.

More like this

Chihuly Short Cuts III N/A
Chihuly Short Cuts III 2014
Blueberry Waggle Dance N/A
Blueberry Waggle Dance 2024
Animation Film Making: A Teaching Method at the Institute of Design 1968 to 1980 N/A
Animation Film Making: A Teaching Method at the Institute of Design 1968 to 1980 1999
Road to the North N/A
Road to the North 2025
Vestígio N/A
Vestígio 2025
Enfumés, j'ai infiltré l'industrie de la vape N/A
Enfumés, j'ai infiltré l'industrie de la vape 2026
Looking for the shed 7.5
Looking for the shed 2023
Chasing Red 10.0
Chasing Red 2015
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman N/A
Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman 2011
Gonsalvus - Die wahre Geschichte von "Die Schöne und das Biest" N/A
Gonsalvus - Die wahre Geschichte von "Die Schöne und das Biest" 2013
Freiheit, Freiheit, Wirklichkeit N/A
Freiheit, Freiheit, Wirklichkeit 2016
Tenho Fé 6.0
Tenho Fé 2022